In the United States, funding for planetary defense has long had strong bipartisan support both inside and outside of ...

Nuclear propulsion could be the future of space travel and NASA and General Atomics just brought us one step closer.

Skywatchers can spot Venus, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars in the night sky with the naked eye, but two other planets might need a ...

The signs of wave ripples in the sandy shores of ancient lake beds, created as wind pushed water back and forth have been found on Mars providing evidence that there were open bodies of water, not ...

Venus, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars will appear to line up and be bright enough to see without a telescope or binoculars — and ...

In a letter addressed to the next NASA administrator—who, if Trump’s nomination is confirmed, will be Shift4 CEO and SpaceX ally Jared Isaacman—Nelson highlighted the space agency’s work during his ...

The SpaceX website has a page dedicated to "Mars & Beyond," which is subtitled "the road to making humanity multiplanetary." Related: Cathie Wood buys $8 million of surging tech stock "It’s about ...

The wheels of rovers wear out badly on Mars. NASA is testing new types of wheels made from a special alloy that are less susceptible to deformation.

The data used to create the image is from a Hubble Space Telescope project to capture and map Jupiter's superstorm system.

Angry Astronaut and Nextbigfuture commenter are making the case that SpaceX and Elon Musk must switch to nuclear thermal rockets to colonize Mars. I will ...

Nuclear thermal propulsion fuel could reduce the travel time for missions to Mars from six months to just 45 days.

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